Author Unknown
“When one bases his life on principle, 99 percent of his decisions are already made.”
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Joel Hawes
"He that cannot decidedly say "no", when tempted to evil, is on the highway to ruin.."
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Author Unknown
“Sometimes we confuse an intention with a decision. Almost everyone intends to do right.”
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Janet Erskine Stuart
“Do not wait for ideal circumstances, nor the best opportunities; they will never come.”
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Elbert Hubbard
“The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one.”
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Peter Drucker
“Wherever you see a successful business, someone once made a courageous decision.”
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Henry Ford
"Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is probably the reason so few engage in it."
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Nathan Eldon Tanner
"It is too late if we wait until the moment of temptation before making our decision."
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Anthony Robbins
"Your life changes the moment you make a new, congruent, and committed decision."
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Aneurin Bevan
“We know what happens to people who stay in the middle of the road. They get run over.”
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Peter Drucker
“Whenever you see a successful business, someone once made a courageous decision.”
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Author Unknown
"Do we realize that small events and choices determine the direction of great ships?
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Ben Stein
“The first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: Decide what you want.”
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Henri-Frédéric Amiel
“The man who insists upon seeing with perfect clearness before he decides never decides.”
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Anso Coetzer
“Decisions become easier when your will to please God outweighs your will to please the world.”
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Theodore Roosevelt
“In any moment of decision the best thing you can do is the right thing, the next best thing is the wrong thing, and the worst thing you can do is nothing.”
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H. Stanley Judd
“A good plan is like a road map: it shows the final destination and usually the best way to get there.”
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John Argenti
“A plan is a list of actions arranged in whatever sequence is thought likely to achieve an objective.”
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Jim Rohn
“It doesn't matter which side of the fence you get off on sometimes. What matters most is getting off. You cannot make progress without making decisions.”
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H. A. Hopf
“Indecision is debilitating; it feeds upon itself; it is, one might almost say, habit-forming. Not only that, but it is contagious; it transmits itself to others.”
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Agnes De Mille
“No trumpets sound when the important decisions of our life are made. Destiny is made known silently.”
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Stephen Covey
“We are not animals. We are not a product of what has happened to us in our past. We have the power of choice.”
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Margaret Thatcher
“Standing in the middle of the road is very dangerous; you get knocked down by the traffic from both sides.”
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Franklin D. Roosevelt
“One thing is sure. We have to do something. We have to do the best we know how at the moment...;If it doesn't turn out right, we can modify it as we go along.”
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Gordon B. Hinckley
“You can determine the kind of life you will have in your 30s and 40s by what you do in your teens."
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William Feather
“Conditions are never just right. People who delay action until all factors are favorable do nothing.”
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Horace
“He who postpones the hour of living is like the rustic who waits for the river to run out before he crosses.”
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James 3:4
"Behold also the ships, which though they be so great, and are driven of fierce winds, yet are they turned about with a very small helm.."
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Anthony Robbins
“Using the power of decision gives you the capacity to get past any excuse to change any and every part of your life in an instant.”
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Burt Lawlor
“Decision and determination are the engineer and fireman of our train to opportunity and success.”
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Viktor Frankl
“The last of the human freedoms: to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one's own way.”
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Proverbs 3:5-6
"Trust in the Lord with all thine heart; and lean not unto thine own understanding. In all thy ways acknowledge him, and he shall direct thy paths."
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Charles Horton Cooley
“Form the habit of making decisions when your spirit is fresh ... to let dark moods lead is like choosing cowards to command armies.”
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Sir William Osier
“To know just what has do be done, then to do it, comprises the whole philosophy of practical life.”
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Joan Baez
“You don't get to choose how you're going to die. Or when. You can only decide how you're going to live. Now.”
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Viktor Frankl
“Man does not simply exist, but always decides what his existence will be, what he will become in the next moment.”
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Pearl S. Buck
“Once the "what" is decided, the "how" always follows. We must not make the "how" an excuse for not facing and accepting the "what."
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Mencius
"Men must be decided on what they will not do, and then they are able to act with vigor in what they ought to do."
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Niccolo Machiavelli
“Wisdom consists in being able to distinguish among dangers and make a choice of the least harmful.”
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Henry Ford
“The best we can do is size up the chances, calculate the risks involved, estimate our ability to deal with them, and then make our plans with confidence.”
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Author Unknown
“We lose the fear of making decisions, great and small, as we realize that should our choice prove wrong we can, if we will, learn from the experience.”
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Ezra Taft Benson
“Making decisions is probably the most important thing people ever do. Nothing happens until someone makes a decision."
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John Foster
“It is a...disgraceful thing not to be able to reply, simple questions, "What will you be? What will you do?"
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Author Unknown
“A decision is a mental condition that is for more advanced and has greater power than a mere intention.
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Jeff Davidson
“When you total up all that you’ve done and experienced, and where you are right now, you have to concede that most of the decisions in your life were yours.”
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T. Boone Pickens
“Be willing to make decisions. That’s the most important quality in a good leader. Don’t fall victim to what I call the ready-aim-aim-aim-aim syndrome.”
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H. L. Hunt
“Decide what you want, decide what you are willing to exchange for it. Establish your priorities and go to work.”
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Author Unknown
“The search for the perfect venture can turn into procrastination. Your idea may or may not have merit. The key is to get started.”
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Napoleon Hill
“Reduce your plan to writing. The moment you complete this, you will have definitely given concrete form to the intangible desire.”
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Tom Landry
“Setting a goal is not the main thing. It is deciding how you will go about achieving it and staying with that plan.”
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Jim Rohn
“It doesn't matter which side of the fence you get off on sometimes. What matters most is getting off. You cannot make progress without making decisions.
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Francis Bacon
“The lame man who keeps the right road outstrips the runner who takes a wrong one ... the more active and swift the latter is, the further he will go astray.”
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William Jennings Bryan
“Destiny is not a matter of chance, it is a matter of choice; it is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved.”
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Bruno Bettelheim
“The last, if not the greatest, of the human freedoms: to choose their own attitude in any given circumstance.”
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El Ray L. Christianson
“To make decisions while infuriated is as unwise and foolish as it is for a captain to put out to sea in a raging storm."
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Theodore Roosevelt
“In a moment of decision, the best thing you can do is the right thing to do. The worst thing you can do is nothing.”
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Goethe
“Each indecision brings its own delays and days are lost lamenting over lost days... What you can do or think you can do, begin it. For boldness has magic, power, and genius in it.”
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Stephen Covey
“We are the creative force of our life, and through our own decisions rather than our conditions, if we carefully learn to do certain things, we can accomplish those goals.”
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ElRay L. Christiansen
“Split-second decisions, which all of us sometimes have to make, can be more safely made if there have been set up beforehand some "musts" and some "must nots".
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L. G. Elliott
“Vacillating people seldom succeed. Successful men and women are very careful in reaching their decisions, and very persistent and determined in action thereafter.”
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Blaise Pascal
“In each action we must look beyond the action at our past, present and future state, and at others whom it affects, and see the relation of all those things. And then we shall be very cautious.”
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Spencer W. Kimball
“Make one time decisions to do right….We can push some things away from us once and have done with them... without having to brood and re-decide a hundred times what it is we will do and what we will not do.”
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Henry D. Moyle
"Our decisions, once executed, can never be erased. This is because such selections introduce a new series of conditions setting in motion events which cannot later be recalled."
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Bobby Murcer
“You decide you'll wait for your pitch. Then as the ball starts toward the plate, you think about your stance. And then you think about your swing. And then you realize that the ball that went past you for a strike was your pitch.”
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Lee Iacocca
“So what do we do? Anything. Something. So long as we just don't sit there. If we screw it up, start over. Try something else. If we wait until we've satisfied all the uncertainties, it may be too late.”
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Jack Canfield
“There are only two words that will always lead you to success. Those words are yes and no. Undoubtedly, you’ve mastered saying yes. So start practicing saying no. Your goals depend on it!”
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Blaise Pascal
“In each action we must look beyond the action at our past, present, and future state, and at others whom it affects, and see the relations of all those things. And then we shall be very cautious.”
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Niccolo Machiavelli
“Decide which is the line of conduct that presents the fewest drawbacks and then follow it out as being the best one, because one never finds anything perfectly pure and unmixed, or exempt from danger.”
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George S. Patton
“In forty hours I shall be in battle, with little information, and on the spur of the moment will have to make the most momentous decisions. But I believe that one's spirit enlarges with responsibility and that, with God's help, I shall make them, and make them right.”
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Joshua 24:15
“And if it seem evil unto you to serve the Lord, choose you this day whom ye will serve; whether the gods which your fathers served that were on the other side of the flood, or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land y dwell: but as for me and my house, we will serve the Lord.”
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H. W. Andrews
“Not all of your decisions will be correct. None of us is perfect. But if you get into the habit of making decisions, experience will develop your judgment to a point where more and more of your decisions will be right. After all, it is better to be right 51 percent of the time and get something done, than it is to get nothing done because you fear to reach a decision.”
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Benjamin Franklin
“When confronted with two courses of action I jot down on a piece of paper all the arguments in favor of each one, then on the opposite side I write the arguments against each one. Then by weighing the arguments pro and con and cancelling them out, one against the other, I take the course indicated by what remains.”
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